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Date: 9th Oct 2020
Posted by: Martin James
Tags: Black History Month, Family History News, Methodist, Surrey
New Non-Conformist & Jamaican records available to search this Findmypast Friday
Vital life event records from England and Jamaica plus a host of new and updated newspapers – here's what's new to Findmypast this week.
England & Wales Non-Conformist Births and Baptisms
Were your ancestors religious dissenters? Findmypast have added thousands of new Surrey Methodist records to this vast collection of more than 1.6 million Birth's and Baptisms.
Each record contains both an image and a transcript of the original register. The amount of information varies, but you can generally find out the following about your non-conformist ancestors:
Your ancestors' names
Their birth and baptism dates
Where they were baptised
Their parents' names
Their godparents' names
Their family's religious beliefs
Historically, many non-conformists used their local parish church for registration purposes, despite their religious differences and even after the Toleration Act of 1689 granted the freedom to worship. Some non-conformists did keep their own registers, particularly for baptisms and burials in the period between 1689 and 1837, and it is these valuable records that make up this collection.
The original documents are all housed at The National Archives in Kew as part of their RG4, RG5, and RG8 series. There are more than 50 denominations covered; some of which existed only briefly and are no longer practiced today. The collection also includes a significant number of French Protestant or Huguenot records.
Jamaica life events
With improved search features, Findmypast's Jamaican collection continues to grow. Explore over 780,000 new birth, baptism, marriage and death records to flesh out the Jamaican branches of your family tree.
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Combine these latest releases with Findmypast's exclusive archive of newspaper pages from the Royal Gazette of Jamaica to add detail and colour to your research.
Four new papers and generous updates to 12 others sees Findmypast's newspaper collection continue to grow.
Brand new to the site this week are:
Peterborough Standard covering 1872-1962
Haddingtonshire Advertiser and East-Lothian Journal covering 1881-1888
Invergordon Times and General Advertiser covering 1879-1886, 1888 and 1892
Ben Brierley's Journal covering 1874-1881, 1883-1884, 1886 and 1888-1889
While thousands of new pages have been added to:
Port Talbot Guardian from 1961-1980
Northman and Northern Counties Advertiser from 1880, 1882-1883 and 1885-1886
Daily Mirror from 1918
Kelso Mail from 1876, 1879-1880, 1883-1884 and 1886
Kirkcaldy Times from 1880-1882 and 1884-1885
Wolverhampton Express and Star from 1874-1876, 1878-1879 and 1881
Bradford Observer from 1954-1956
Evening Mail from 1861-1864 and 1868
Helensburgh News from 1879-1885
Marylebone Mercury from 1926-1932, 1934, 1936-1937 and 1946
Manchester Times from 1857 and 1863
Nantwich Chronicle from 1965-1970
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Refrain from Doing These 3 Things as You Begin Your Running Journey
Jogging Dad
The decision to become a runner can be very much like a New Year's resolution. It is always made with the best of intentions but then withers away gradually as life's many distractions get in the way. However, there are some distractions that one can consciously avoid which will prevent the withering of both your money, as well as your reasons for wanting to run.
1. Frivolous Spending on Running Apparels/Gadgets
Some people make the commendable decision to start running. Instead of doing just that, they then channel their energy on what is the latest technology footwear or the foremost-advanced calorie-counting watch to buy. Such extravagant outlays not only put in doubt the true motivation for running (with obvious implications for its longer term sustainability), but are downright wasteful.
Irrespective of the multi-billion dollar industry catering to his perceived needs, all a runner really needs is a pair of joggers which is not in tatters, an old T-shirt that you were planning to donate to charity and a genuine desire to also donate something worthwhile towards your own sense of well-being.
2. Subscribing to Running/Fitness Magazines
For those who truly believe that being a runner requires so much more than just going out and putting one foot in front of the other, feel free to seek advice from appropriate sources. However, I urge you to think twice about paying good money subscribing to any of the running or fitness magazines out in the market. While most, if not all, of them do indeed provide sound tips, these are readily available on the Internet without costing you a cent.
Furthermore, refraining from these publications allows you to distance yourself from the temptations of frivolous spending mentioned above—after all, who could resist those glossy advertisements featuring the latest Garmin GPS watch which can not only measure your pace in 16 different ways, but has enough computing firepower to launch you into space!
Most importantly, avoiding these well-intentioned magazines minimizes contact with influences which distract you from what running is at its core—a simple and natural act performed by man (and woman) since the dawn of time.
3. Committing to Long Term Gym Membership Contracts
Being a gym member is great for both general fitness and even social reasons. However, committing to an expensive long term membership contract so that you can begin running is akin to uprooting to Brazil so that you can begin learning Portuguese—admirable but not even close to being necessary.
There may be countless reasons to commence your journey as a runner in the gym e.g. treadmills are better for the knees, safer than being on the road, opportunity to cross-train, a motivating surrounding, etc. In reality, though, they are mere snippets of canned wisdom from those glossy magazines that I have already advised against subscribing to above. If you want to start running, just start running. Don't complicate what is essentially a very primitive form of exercise by throwing your hard-earned dollars at it.
I'm not advocating a monk-like abstinence to the above-mentioned temptations when starting your runner's journey. By all means, leaf through an occasional running magazine, browse the odd Nike catalogue and entertain some casual visits to the gym.
However, keep this mind: running for joy usually begins with an innocent single step, motivated by an emotional yearning (health, solitude, mental clarity), and quietly builds from there. It rarely starts with a materialistic splurge, driven by superficial desires because, rather than building from there, it invariably descends into an "all form, no substance" chore. And as every passionate advocate knows, when it comes to running, substance trumps over form any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
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Chester County Distillery to Expand into Center City
Kenneth Hilario
Published April 14, 2017 • Updated on April 14, 2017 at 8:18 pm
A Phoenixville, Pa.-based craft distillery is getting the Center City treatment with the opening of a retail location to let consumers, who haven't made the drive to the Chester County distillery, get their hands on its products.
Jared Adkins founded Bluebird Distilling in June 2015 after working for major companies like Pepsi and Nestlé, and a stint in the beer world.
The distillery became the first craft spirit distillery in Chester County, according to the company, the products of which are now available in 140 restaurants throughout the Philadelphia area.
The next step of its expansion strategy for 2017 includes a physical presence location through a pop-up tasting bar and retail shop at The Shops at Liberty Place in Center City.
Located at the 17th Street entrance of The Shops, experts said this move bodes well for the company and its potential permanent presence in Philadelphia.
Set to open in late May, the tasting bar and retail shop will take over the space vacated by an outpost of Brown Betty Dessert Boutique, a local woman- and minority-owned bakery, which last year closed its doors after more than a decade in operation to pursue wholesale opportunities.
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Q: How can I pass parameter to (Get-PnPUser | ? Email -eq ($SPUserEmail)); I have the following PnP PowerShell script:
$conn = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=$DBServer;Integrated Security=True;Initial Catalog=$DBName")
$conn.Open();
$query = $Query
$dap = new-object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter($query,$conn);
$dt = new-object System.Data.DataTable;
$null = $dap.Fill($dt)
      foreach($r in $dt.Rows )   {
$SPUserEmail = $r["email_address"];
$SPuser = (Get-PnPUser | ? Email -eq ($SPUserEmail));}

but I always get this error:
The specified user  could not be found.

but if I type the email address manually I get the user details:
$SPuser = (Get-PnPUser | ? Email -eq test@test.com);

although when I do Write-Host $SPUserEmail I will get test@test.com
So what could be the reason?

A: It's because $SPUserEmail holds a object, and the email is a property. Get-PnpUser expects a string value.
PropertyName is the property name found in the object.
To get only the value out of the object, either select it when setting the variable:
$SPUserEmail = $r["email_address"] | Select-Object PropertyName -ExpandProperty PropertyName

Or by expanding the property value you need:
(Get-PnPUser | Where-Object Email -eq ($SPUserEmail.PropertyName))

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Dealers who win in arbitration hearings against auto makers aren't exactly popping corks or celebrating after their wins are announced.
Most play wait-and-see. Waiting, that is, for Chrysler to issue letters of intent and negotiate the next steps to restart the business.
Most of the arbitration action is in the Chrysler court, since General Motors Co. on June 8 announced it was bringing back about 900 once-rejected dealers.
As of June 16, arbitrators ruled in favor of Chrysler in 32 cases, while dealers had won 11, about one-third.
Attorney Allen Press represented Century Motor Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep of Wentzville, MO, in a 3-day arbitration hearing involving Chrysler.
Against the odds, Press' clients, the Mock family that owns the suburban St. Louis dealership won the hearing. They were the first Missouri dealership to win their case against Chrysler.
Century was part of 789 Chrysler-brand dealers slated for closure. Century had sued Chrysler several years ago on allocation and sales contract issues, and subsequently was on a black list, the Mock family contends.
Press is hesitant to talk about the future. "We have no expectation that Chrysler is going to voluntarily issue Century a dealer agreement," he tells Ward's.
Despite their arbitration victory, Mock still expresses dismay over the original closure in May 2009.
The Mocks, including his father, dealer Frank Mock, and John Mock, his uncle and co-dealer, invested about $4 million in the facilities and have been loyal single point Chrysler dealers since 1983. In all, 14 family members worked the privately owned family business.
There's still a lot of worry going on among the 24 Missouri dealers whom Chrysler cut. Very few of them have so far have won in arbitration.
Jack Fitzgerald, head of a major East Coast-based dealership group, won in arbitration against Chrysler for his Fitzgerald Countryside Jeep, Clearwater, FL.
But the multi-franchise dealer isn't celebrating yet. Other decisions are still in process.
"I hope I don't have to do anything more, but these things are not over," Fitzgerald says. He still had not heard from Chrysler on next steps.
"My customers are the reason I'm back in business," he says about loyal folks who campaigned on the dealership's behalf. Fitzgerald has major dealership holdings in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Florida as of part of Fitzgerald Auto Malls.
Arbitration dealer attorney Michael Charapp estimates an auto maker has seven business days to act following a decision. The ironic thing is the arbitration ball bounces back to their court for review.
That's what makes dealers nervous. Plus, many are waiting to negotiate new contracts.
In a concept called the "repeat player effect," Cornell University labor professor Alex Colvin extensively studied American Arbitration Assn. outcomes for major employers vs. employees in hearings.
Colvin says he found evidence of repeat-player bias in that arbitrators favored employers or large entities in the vast majority of cases. That's because arbitrators tended to deal more often with employers on a repeat basis than with individual employees on the other side of a dispute in arbitration.
Kevin Mock thinks the repeat-player effect has been on Chrysler's side, based on what he knows about the theory.
Chrysler had four lawyers to the Mocks' one. Some dealers claim they are being "out-lawyered" because of their lack of legal firepower.
Chrysler argues the repeat-player effect doesn't apply to the auto maker, because Colvin's cited effect is based on arbitrations being voluntary, not from an act of Congress, which is the case for the terminated dealer reviews.
Colvin's repeat-player impact "assumes it's voluntary and that a company will use the process again," says Chrysler spokesman Mike Palese.
"I'm amused by Chrysler's view on the repeat player effect," says Texas attorney Richard Faulkner, who specializes in arbitration issues. "The prospect of future business (to arbitrators or lawyers) is important. That future business is not limited to the dealers.
"The more likely volume of business is with (auto maker) customers, suppliers and others in the industry. The ostensible fact that the arbitrations are supposedly voluntary is irrelevant," Faulkner insists.
"The arbitration mechanism was tilted in favor of the manufacturers," he says.
Chrysler says it is inaccurate to use the term "reinstated" to describe the status of rejected dealers prevailing in arbitration.
Technically, those dealers had sales and service agreements with the former Chrysler organization, pre-bankruptcy.
Instead, he says, Chrysler sent 36 initial letters of intent to open-point dealers and 50 to fill points previously in the old Chrysler network.
These dealers were given the chance to join the new Chrysler network if they met certain requirements. Now Chrysler is offering letters of intent to dealers who prevail in arbitrations.
"This is stipulated in the federal legislation and we will continue to fulfill that requirement," Palese says.
About 400 Chrysler dealers initially opted for arbitration. That number was reduced dramatically as cases were withdrawn, dismissed or settled. Currently, Chrysler has about 70 cases remaining in arbitration, he says. About 130 cases have been dismissed, withdrawn or abandoned, Chrysler says.
Chrysler thinks an extension of the July 14 arbitration deadline is possible. Arbitrators can extend it through the month of July.
In its about-face, GM changed its dealer-arbitration strategy by announcing it would keep open about 900 dealerships.
The auto maker could end up with about 5,000 U.S. dealers, up from original plans for 4,100, says Mark Reuss, GM's North America president.
GM had about 6,000 dealers when it filed for bankruptcy in June 2009.


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The Spookiest Stories from Jamie Fessenden!
I missed Halloween with this post, so I'll aim for the Day of the Dead instead! My intent was to blog about some of the scary/creepy stories I've written over the years.
I love horror, so I'm actually surprised I haven't written more of it. For a very brief time, I made micro-budget horror films. They were of variable quality, and unfortunately you can only see one, at present, on YouTube. It's really grisly, so don't watch it if you don't go for gore. I made it for the Eerie Horror Fest in 2006. They had a contest for filmmakers to submit ads for the festival. Sadly, ours "won," simply because it was the only submission, but I'm proud of it. We were experimenting with lighting and learning how to use our new camera crane (basically a teeter-totter device that allowed the camera to smoothly pan up and down). If you go to the YouTube channel for Dunkirk Studios, you can see some trailers for other films we worked on. Some made it into festivals, but our big project, "The Resurrection," was never finished, due to lack of locations willing to allow naked people covered in blood to run around on their premises. It would have been epic. EPIC.
After publishing some short stories and novellas (one I'd consider novel-length, in its second edition), I decided to dive into a full-length novel in same vein as The Da Vinci Code, in which the characters are piecing together an occult mystery by researching ancient tomes. The result was Murderous Requiem.
In this novel, I delved into the writings of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Italian scholar who was more or less responsible for bringing the works of Plato to the West, and who believed that music could heal the human body by bringing our pure spiritual form into harmony with our physical form. He was a jack-of-all-trades – a doctor, philosopher, writer, and composer – so the story is about the discovery of a mass written by Ficino, which could go one step further and pull the soul back into the body after death. The story involves a beautiful drug addict with the voice of an angel, a murder, nearly everything my music theory major taught me in college, and ominous, supernatural flocks of ravens.
Bigfoot Hunters in Love was originally a free short story I gave away on my blog. You can still get it here. But I thought it needed more, so eventually I expanded upon it and contracted Scott J. Coatsworth to create a cover that conveyed both the silly elements of the story and the creepiness. It's about a man who moves to the country and is chased into the forest one night by a monster. He loses his slippers and his dignity, eventually crashing headlong into a man who's been hunting the creature for years. Along with our hero's trusty dog, Thor, they set out to uncover proof that the creature exists.
Sadly, the anthology of bizarre stories set in the Old West edited by my friend and fellow author, Kim Fielding, is no longer available, except in used paperbacks. I'll have to republish my short story from it: The Sheriff of Para Siempre. This was one of my favorite of my own stories, about two young men hiring themselves out as law-enforcement in a dying mining town. It ultimately involves a man who simply won't stay dead, and the ending is the most tragic thing I've ever written. As one reviewer said: "I'm a blubbering mess right now, so if I'm not making sense, you can blame it on Jamie Fessenden. Quite simply, this story broke me. It broke my heart and it made me speechless."
Author and friend, Eli Easton, came up with a great idea for an anthology: Gothic horror romances to be released each Halloween, each with a specific theme. The first was called Gothika #1: Stitch, and Eli did the cover for it. It was gorgeous. I even made a book trailer, which looks a bit clunky, in retrospect, since it was the first time I played with Movie Maker. But I'm very proud of the music I wrote for it. (Yes, all those tens of thousands I spent on my music theory degree paid off!)
I won't describe all the wonderful stories in these anthologies, since that would take forever, but I'll briefly describe the stories I wrote. For Stitch, I wrote a story called Watchworks, about a watchmaker in Victorian London, who is called to the home of a wealthy gentleman for a bizarre purpose: to repair the intricate mechanical hand of a handsome young man. The hand is so lifelike, it's impossible to tell it isn't flesh, unless the artificial skin is removed. But as the watchmaker attempts to repair the hand, he begins to suspect more and more of the young man is clockwork. Just how much of him is still human?
For Gothika #2: Bones, I wrote a Young Adult story about two teenagers living in a Latinx neighborhood in Manchester, New Hampshire. One has a grandmother (abuelita) who runs a botánica – a shop that sells folk medicine and magical items used in vodou rituals – and when he attempts to acquire a copy of the dreaded Book of St. Cyprian for the shop, he accidentally releases a dark spirit that possesses his friend's dog. The two boys work frantically to exorcise the spirit, before it can hurt the dog or, worse… abuelita finds out what they've been up to.
Don't expect any sex with this one, but it's fun and creepy and has some interesting stuff about local vodou practices. I had a couple of Spanish-speaking friends take me to the botánica in Manchester, so we could quiz the owner and see what she had for sale. And, yes, the Book of St. Cyprian is a real book, rumored to be so evil, anyone who reads it risks losing their soul.
Isolation (Gothika #3: Claw) is adapted from a screenplay I wrote, but was never able to film – mostly because we weren't able to find a good location. It follows a man who once had a great relationship with his best friend and lover, but chickened out of a long-term gay relationship and married a woman. Years later, after his marriage has disintegrated, he comes back with his tail between his legs, hoping to rekindle what he and his friend once had.
But he finds his friend living deep in the woods, isolated from the town, and not at all willing to get into a relationship with him… or anyone, apparently. And he soon discovers there is something sinister prowling through the forest at night…
For Gothika #4: Spirit, the theme was ghost stories, and I delved into the history of the old mill buildings in New England, which were plagued by fires that killed massive amounts of workers – usually young women. The most famous is the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire which killed 146 workers, mostly Italian and Jewish immigrant women in their teens and early twenties (the youngest was 14), because the doors to stairwells and exits were locked to prevent workers from sneaking out on breaks.
For The Mill, I adapted a ballad about the Granite Mill to my fictional mill building, and had a team of ghost-hunters investigating appearances that have frightened off construction workers so often the building now lies empty and abandoned.
The last Gothika we did was called Contact, and it dealt with stories of alien abduction.
My story was called, not surprisingly, Abduction. It's about a man who visits an old boyfriend and finds that he's basically had a nervous breakdown and ranting about aliens abducting him and implanting things in his body. Our hero agrees to stay the night and help watch for aliens, and to his horror, he's abducted.
The aliens don't experiment on him, but that's because he was abducted by different aliens than his friend was abducted by. In order to save his friend, he has to take sides in an interstellar war and befriend the commander of the ship he's a prisoner on. Over time, he and the commander discover they have a connection…
Filed under Contemporary, Day of the Dead, Film Writing, gay, Halloween, horror, Jamie Fessenden, Murderous Requiem, occult, Occult/Paranormal, Pets, Romance
Tagged as Day of the Dead, Halloween, horror, jamie fessenden, spooky
When a dry spell starts to get scary…
I finished a novel in November, and usually I take a few weeks off before I dive into my next big project. But something went haywire this year. Those few weeks turned into a few months, and now the motivation to sit down and begin writing isn't really there.
What happened? I don't know, and it's frightening. This post is going to be a little strange, but since I began this blog, I've been posting about the experience of being a writer — not just writing itself, but the way things affect me, like reviews and events in my life. So this is one of those posts, about what it's like when things aren't going so well.
There are some obvious things in my life that factored into this dry spell:
My cat, Koji, died. This was huge. Koji was a mean-tempered old cat (about 20-years-old) who was so vicious to outsiders we literally had to sedate him when we took him to the vet. (I have a hilarious story about the mass havoc he created there once, involving slashed hands and pee splattered everywhere.) Even drugged, he growled and snarled in his crate like a demon from hell, making everyone back away in trepidation. But he loved me. I'd had him his entire life. In my arms, he was a cuddly furball, and that's where he died, purring, when he could no longer stand up on his own power. I was devastated by his loss, just two days after Christmas.
My publisher rejected a novel. This shouldn't be a big deal, because it happens to writers all the time, but it had never happened to me. Since I published my first novel in 2010, nothing I've submitted has been rejected. Perhaps some of those manuscripts should have been rejected, because they didn't sell very well, but my publisher was willing to take the risk. Now the market has changed. Publishers are closing their doors left and right, so my publisher is understandably more reticent to accept manuscripts that don't follow tried-and-true romance formulas. This makes me sad, but… business is business.
My Christmas novel didn't sell very well. Oh, it sold. Far better than novels I've released in the past. It just didn't sell as well as the two previous novels, and that put me into a funk. Especially, since I'd put a ton of work into it, and was really vested in it. I also marketed it up the wazoo. Considering that my two previous novels far exceeded my expectations, you'd think I'd be grateful for having a banner year. (And I did have a great year, for book sales overall!) But… that's not the way an artist's mind works.
I have a friend who is very ill. I can't talk about it much on social media, but I'm immensely worried for her.
Our dog, Kumar, is aging. He isn't exactly at death's door, but his muzzle has gone gray, and he is now on anti-inflammatories and painkillers for arthritis. Just a year ago, I was feeling guilty that I never exercised him enough, so we invested in a dog enclosure in the yard and got another dog to keep him company and play with him! But I was too late. He's suddenly not in the mood to play much. The pup and he are gradually becoming play buddies, and the meds help him have more energy to wrestle, but he spent so much time snarling at the pup for trying to pounce on him when he wasn't feeling well, the biggest side-effect of the new dog is jealousy. We spend so much time trying to convince both of them that we love them. It's not exactly that things aren't working out with the new dog, but it isn't working out as I'd hoped.
I feel like I'm letting people down. I've missed events I was supposed to participate in as a writer. I have a sci-fi novel (Martian Born) that got me into a wonderful sci-fi workshop, and I got a lot of encouragement to finish it — but it still isn't finished. More importantly, my husband wants that one finished. I also have a romance novel my publisher was asking for, but after me telling them I needed more time to finish it too often… they've stopped asking. I can't blame them, but it's just another thing that makes me feel as if I'm drifting away from the career I loved so much…
All of these things point to a big problem with depression right now, of course. I can see that. I could go to a therapist, but like a lot of people suffering from depression, I'm not sure I want to commit to going onto antidepressants. I know they help people. I'm the son of not one, but two psychologists, and I lost an ex-boyfriend to suicide. (I.E., we weren't boyfriends at the time, but still close friends.) I don't want to discourage anyone from getting help, when they need it, and I'm still leaving that door open. But knowing myself like I do, I think there are some other things to try first. This may be the first big dry spell I've had, but it isn't the first time I've dealt with my tendency toward depression.
What I do think will help is finishing this damned romance novel. It's good. I know it's good, and my publisher thinks it's good (what they read of it). It's only about two chapters from being done! I just need to sit down and force myself to start writing. Then maybe the words will start flowing again. Then maybe it will be time to finish that sci-fi novel…
And honestly, there is so much good in my life right now. I have to keep reminding myself of that.
I have a wonderful husband and a wonderful home. The new puppy is adorable and a great addition to the household (even if he does bark incessantly), and I did have a good year, professionally. My best ever, in fact.
Filed under Jamie Fessenden, Life, Pets, Writing
Tagged as depression, Dry Spell, writing
November 20, 2016 · 12:38 pm
New Release! A Cop for Christmas!
I love Christmas! And these days, nothing makes me sadder than not having a story to offer for the season.
Last year, I was unable to finish the novella I was writing for the holidays, but I was saved by a request for short stories on the theme of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." My contribution, a sci-fi story on a space station called "Five Rings," was released as one of a series of podcasts on WROTE Podcast.
This year, I was able to return to the novella from last year, which I'd only just begun, and finish it up. The result was one of the longer novellas I've written: A Cop for Christmas
The cover art is by the fantastic Reese Dante.
I actually commissioned it last year, but was unable to use it then. I'm so excited to have this story come out now!
Mason Collier isn't big on authority figures. When Office Steve Coleman pulls him over and gives him a speeding ticket, he doesn't react well. He's even less happy when he discovers the cop lives next door to his parents' house.
No matter where they turn this holiday season, Steve and Mason keep running into each other, and whenever they talk for more than a minute, they piss each other off. But from wayward dogs to Christmas tree hunts to maple syrup festivals, it proves impossible to avoid each other in the small town.
If Mason can see the good man behind the badge, he might just get a cop for Christmas.
Buy Link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NB9811M/
Steve decided to take Rufus out into the yard to pee. The dog had already marked most of the yard by this point, and probably didn't have much left in him, but he assumed Mason had come to talk to Sam. Steve didn't need to hover around for that.
To his annoyance, Mason followed him.
"What?" Steve asked testily when they were out of earshot from anyone listening in the barn.
Mason stopped walking, startled. "What do you mean, 'What?'"
"Why are you following me?"
"Sorry. I just thought…. It's pretty awkward between me and Sam right now."
"I know. I heard all about your date last night."
Mason grimaced. "Exactly. I tried to tell Mom it was a bad idea for me to come over here, but she twisted my arm." Rufus was begging for his attention, so he petted the dog's head absently. "She seems to think Sam and I are perfect for each other. We just don't know it yet."
"Sam's a good guy," Steve said, the old feelings of protectiveness welling up again. He glanced at the barn, certain Sam was watching them, but there was too much contrast between the bright sunlight in the yard and the shadows inside for him to make out anything.
"I don't doubt that. But he's really not my type."
Steve snorted. He didn't have much respect for the idea of people having a "type." "My mother practically hated my father on sight. He was ex-military, clean-cut, a cop, and she was an anti-war activist who mostly went for scruffy-looking guys in Bajas and sandals."
"It's hard for me to imagine you with a hippie for a mom."
"Activist," Steve corrected. "She wasn't what I'd call a hippie. I mean, she wasn't particularly into mysticism, and she never did drugs. That would have been a deal-breaker for Dad. He loved her, but he was still sworn to uphold the law. My point is, he wasn't her 'type,' and she wasn't his. But they still fell in love."
Mason smiled and came closer, his feet crunching on the packed snow. "That's really sweet. How on earth did they even meet to begin with?"
"How do you think? Dad arrested her at an anti-nuclear protest. I hear things got a little rowdy."
Mason laughed. "Yeah, I went to a couple of protests against the Iraq war when I was in college. Kade still does a lot of that." He shook his head sadly. "But I've turned boring in my old age."
"According to your driver's license, you're twenty-nine," Steve said, then wanted to kick himself for bringing up the traffic stop while they were having a pleasant conversation.
Mason didn't seem upset by the reminder. "I just mean I'm not a very interesting guy. I do freelance illustration for a living, if you can call it that. I read a lot of books, watch a lot of romantic comedies, and help out with UNH art classes for extra money."
"And I'm a cop who watches a lot of action flicks and loves dogs more than people. I'm not your type, and you're not mine." The implication of that suddenly struck him, and he froze, his eyes going wide like a deer in headlights.
Mason stared at him, an expression of surprise on his handsome features. He said quietly, "Dogs are pretty awesome."
"Mason!"
They jumped at the sound of Kade's voice.
Filed under Christmas, Contemporary, gay, Jamie Fessenden, New Release, Pets, Romance
Tagged as A Cop for Christmas, blizzard, Christmas, dog, jamie fessenden, police, snow
October 9, 2016 · 12:20 pm
Way back in 2011, I wrote a short story about a guy who gets chased by Bigfoot and stumbles across a Bigfoot hunter in the forest. It was a cute story, if I do say so myself, but very short and not particularly satisfying. Even though I made it available for free, few people read it. (It's still available here under the original title Finding Love through Bigfoot.)
So this year, I've gone back to the original story, tightened up what was there, and expanded it to a novella!
Bigfoot Hunters in Love is a more involved story, over three times longer than the first, which follows Stuart and Jake through several encounters with multiple creatures that might or might not be Bigfoots. The story also includes some guest appearances by Tom, Kevin, Sue, and Shadow from my novel Billy's Bones a few years after the incidents in that story. And it features a wonderful, quirky cover designed by fellow author J. Scott Coatsworth!
When Stuart bought a house in the country, he thought he'd have some quiet time to write. The last thing he expected was to be chased through the forest in the middle of the night by something massive and hairy that can run on two legs. When he literally runs into a ranger named Jake, he learns the bizarre truth: he's just had a Bigfoot sighting.
Jake rescues him, but Stuart soon discovers he hasn't seen the last of Bigfoot. There's a family of the creatures out there, and Jake has been tracking them for years through the state parks of New Hampshire. Soon Stuart finds himself caught up in Jake's quest… and in very close quarters with the handsome ranger himself.
Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Bigfoot-Hunters-Love-Jamie-Fessenden-ebook/dp/B01M8FGTED/
"You can take the sleeping bag if you want," Jake volunteered, still crouched at the entrance to the tent as he unlaced his hiking boots and removed them.
"That's okay. I'll just stretch out beside you on the mat. Can I borrow one of these blankets?"
Jake crawled inside and zipped up the door flap. "I suppose you could do that, but that insulating pad's not very thick. You'd probably be more comfortable—and warmer—if we laid the sleeping bag out beneath us and shared a blanket. Up to you. I'm fine with whatever you want to do."
Stuart wasn't sure if Jake's suggestion was sound wilderness survival logic or just an excuse to get close. Maybe it was both. Was Jake gay? At this point, Stuart couldn't really say he cared. The light of the campfire had revealed a handsome, rugged man with a strong jaw softened by several days' worth of beard growth, unkempt blond hair, and striking, emerald green eyes. Stuart would normally have considered the man to be extremely hot, but now that he was no longer pumped up on adrenalin, the only thing he could think about was lying down somewhere comfortable and closing his eyes for a while.
"All right," he said.
"Do you mind if I sleep in my skivvies?"
"I guess not."
Jake didn't bother unbuttoning his shirt. He just slipped it over his head, along with his undershirt. The harsh, bluish light from the LED flashlight wasn't exactly mood lighting, but Stuart was nevertheless impressed by the muscular arms and chest revealed. When Jake shucked his jeans, Stuart had to force himself to look away. In just a pair of gray boxer briefs, Jake was as beautiful as a Greek statue, though a bit hairier. And even though his crotch was covered by his briefs, it was easy to tell the Greek statue comparison didn't extend to that part of his anatomy.
"You don't have to keep the robe on," Jake said.
"You know I'm naked under this."
"I do," Jake replied. "I'm just sayin' it's up to you. I know I wouldn't be comfortable tangled up in that thing all night long."
Stuart eyed him warily. It wasn't that he was shy exactly, but Jake stripping to his underwear already felt kind of sexual and he couldn't stop to thinking in the cowgirl sex machine at Cirilla's he saw online. Now he wanted Stuart to get naked? "Um… you're straight, right?"
Jake was in the process of unzipping the sleeping bag he was sitting on. He stopped and looked up with a sour expression on his face. "I wasn't making a pass at you," he said coolly, "but if it makes a difference, no. I am not straight."
"You're gay?"
"Bisexual, I suppose. I've fooled around with both."
Stuart took a moment to process this. Did it really matter? Maybe. "Sleeping naked with some guy I've just met feels a little weird to me."
"So don't do it then." Jake sighed, and his expression relaxed. "Look, just because I like men doesn't mean I have the hots for every guy I meet."
To his surprise, Stuart felt a little hurt by that though he knew what Jake meant. "I know that." He decided he might as well come clean. "I'm… gay, actually."
Jake snorted and shook his head. "I don't see how that changes anything."
"Is it that unusual to be uncomfortable sleeping naked with a strange man?" Stuart asked defensively.
"I guess not," Jake conceded. He went back to unzipping the sleeping bag. "Like I said, it's up to you. Gay, straight, bisexual… I'm still not gonna be gropin' you in the dark. I said you could sleep without the robe if it would make you more comfortable. If it doesn't, then don't do it. Now why don't you scoot to the front of the tent while I lay this out?"
The conversation died for a few minutes as Jake spread the sleeping bag over the insulated pad that covered the floor of the tent, then spread a blanket over it. The blanket was soft on one side, like polar fleece, but had a heavier insulating material on the reverse side. Jake slipped underneath it.
"Go ahead and crawl in," he told Stuart.
Stuart stubbornly clung to the bathrobe as he wormed his way into the makeshift bed. It was a tight fit with both of them lying side by side, and the damned robe kept wrapping around his torso and legs in uncomfortable ways. But it wasn't until Jake had switched off the LED lamp with the technology from https://ggisolutions.com/products-capabilities/membrane-switches-keypads-silicone-membranes-custom-hmi-solutions/ and plunged them into darkness that Stuart announced, "I'm going to lose the robe."
Wrestling his arms out of the stupid thing and pulling it out from under him was much harder than stripping before getting into bed would have been. Jake didn't get to see him naked this way, but by now Stuart was beginning to think that would have been more dignified.
He tucked the robe under his head for a pillow and muttered, "I'll try not to rub against you in the night."
Jake chuckled. "Whatever."
They settled down, lying back to back, and in the close quarters, it wasn't actually possible to avoid touching. Stuart could feel Jake's warmth against his skin and the gentle rhythm of his breathing. It made him feel surprisingly safe and comforted, despite the fact he was in the middle of the forest, snuggled up to a total stranger—a man he might have considered to be crazy had they met a few days ago.
Within minutes, he was sound asleep.
Filed under Bisexual, Contemporary, Cover, gay, horror, Jamie Fessenden, New Release, Occult/Paranormal, Pets, Romance
Tagged as Bigfoot, Bigfoot Hunters in Love, gay, jamie fessenden, m/m, new release, paranormal, romance
The best girl in the world
In my novel Billy's Bones, I based Tom's dog, Shadow, on my own dog, Kumar. In Violated, Derek's quiet, aging dog was also based upon one of my dogs — Lady. This is her story.
When I graduated from college, I eventually found myself living by myself out in a cabin in the woods of Nelson, NH. I had a job and a car, but not much of a social life. It was damned lonely.
So I decided to get a dog. I went to the local shelter and played with several of the dogs there over the span of a few weeks, but I couldn't find the one I was looking for. I needed an older dog, medium-sized, who wasn't too hyper, thanks to the fact that my landlady's mother was 80 and afraid of big dogs.
Then one day I walked into the shelter and there was a new dog out front. They hadn't even finished her paperwork yet. But she had the biggest, most soulful eyes I'd ever seen, and I fell in love with her immediately.
Lady was at least six when I got her, though we suspected the owner lied and she might be older. She'd been left out in a dog pen with other dogs her entire life, so I had to house train her. Fortunately, she caught on quickly. When we would go out for a walk together I would wear some good running shoes for flat feet so that I could keep up. She also had this weird habit of taking her dog kibble out of the bowl and trying to press it into the wooden floor, scraping all around it with her nose as if she were burying it and hiding it from anyone who might try to steal it from her. And when is raining and we go out for a walk I wear my Vessi waterproof shoes.
She was very docile and quiet. I wasn't even sure she knew how to bark, until one morning the landlady opened the door of my cabin and walked in without asking permission. Lady was sleeping on my bed with me, and she immediately leapt to her feet, standing over me and barking ferociously to defend me. (Good girl!)
It's hard to describe how much I adored her, this little dog I could scoop up in my arms and cuddle like a baby. She was a bit big for that, but she put up with it.
When I moved in with a boyfriend for a while, things went downhill for her. He didn't like dogs. While he wasn't abusive to her, he largely ignored her, and when she still had the occasional accident inside, he yelled at her — which usually made her crouch down and pee more. She was no longer allowed on the bed, so I had to buy her a dog bed.
Ultimately, that human relationship would break up, and I'd realize I should never have given in as much as I had. I should never have let my girl be yelled at. I should have fought to keep her on the bed, at my side where she wanted to be. She was my best girl, and she stuck with me through some of the hardest times of my life.
But one night, when my ex and I were having yet another of the arguments that marked the end of our relationship, there was a storm going on outside. When I came out of the bedroom, I asked one of the house guests we had where Lady was. She was terrified of storms. And he told me she'd been running around looking like she had to pee, so he'd let her out.
She hadn't needed to pee. She'd been panic-stricken. Out in the storm, she panicked and bolted and disappeared into the night.
After a week of searching the neighborhood, calling her name, and putting up "Lost Dog" signs, I woke one night in the wee hours of the morning with a sense that I needed to go to the front door. I went into the kitchen and opened the door to find Lady sitting on the porch. I was ecstatic that she'd found her way back to me. The next day, I emailed everybody I knew to let them know.
But I was celebrating too soon.
A couple of days later, she started coughing. While she'd been wandering around out in the cold, rainy September nights, she'd caught pneumonia. I took her to the vet — who I'm convinced to this day was incompetent, for a number of reasons — and eventually she ended up on oxygen.
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, while everyone else watched the bombing of the World Trade Center in horror, I was barely aware of it. Because Lady was dying. I saw her on my lunch break from work, and she looked awful. Her lips were blue, and she was gasping for breath. I held it together as best I could and went out to get something to eat. While I was out, the vet called and told me she'd died. And I hadn't been there.
I fell apart. I couldn't go back to work. I was a wreck for weeks — months. To this day, I still can't think of that day without crying. I'm crying now.
It was ten years before I could bring myself to get another dog. Lady had been irreplaceable. She was my girl.
The best girl in the world.
Filed under Life, New Release, Pets
Tagged as Best Girl in the World, dog, jamie fessenden, Lady, new release, Violated
The world of "Billy's Bones" – a tour through Tom's house
As some of you may already know, I based a number of elements in my psychological mystery novel Billy's Bones upon my real life. There is no specific person in my life who inspired Kevin, though I know many people who are a bit like him in one way or another, including a friend who works as a handyman. Alas, I am disturbingly like Tom. I don't look like him, but I often think like him (well, a combination of him and Jeremy from my novel Murderous Requiem).
The setting though—particularly Tom's house—was based very much on my real house. One of my friends told me she had trouble reading the novel, because she knew the setting too well and she prefers to let her imagination create it. So if you have vivid images in your mind about the setting of Billy's Bones, you might want to skip these pictures. But for those of you who are curious….
The house sits at the end of a long driveway, far enough out in the country that we have no streetlights, though still close enough to the highway that we can get to the hospital if we need to. It resembles the Escape Room in Minneapolis because of its size and maze-like layout. Unfortunately, my husband didn't feel comfortable posting a picture of the outside of the house, since it would be easy to drive around our small town with a photo and figure out where we live. This post is basically going out to the entire Internet, after all. But I can post some pics of the inside and pertinent areas.
We do have a flock of about 20 wild turkeys that wander through the yard almost daily and they can get in the way when we drive in and try to park. They aren't afraid of us. They just casually saunter out of the path of the car and glare at us for disturbing them. Deer show up occasionally, too, but not as much since we got the dog.
I won't show you every room in the house, but here are a couple, as they looked when we moved in and as Tom saw them. The first is the stove room. You can see the spiral staircase leading down into the basement. Like Shadow, our dog was too afraid to go down those stairs, so we didn't have to block it off when he decided it was fun to run down into the basement. We did have to put up a child gate in front of the other basement stairs until he outgrew that phase.
And here's the living room, where Tom and Kevin had to sit on the floor to use the laptop.
Probably the biggest difference between the novel and reality, is that I extended the back deck quite a bit in the novel, so it would be large enough to hold the hot tub. Unlike Tom, we do have neighbors, but in some directions the forest extends all the way to state park land, and you could easily get lost in it. I know—I once spent a half hour wandering around in it, chasing after our dog, when he broke free of his harness. Fortunately, we both found our way back home.
The real hot tub is off a side deck. When we turned the thing on and discovered it was dead (the original is in this picture), we couldn't find anyone willing to repair it. It was as badly cobbled together as I described in the novel, and not particularly safe. So eventually we replaced it.
And this appropriately creepy picture (taken with my cellphone, since a certain pooch ate our digital camera), is The Well, as seen through the trees in back of the house. No, not the one at the end of the novel, but the cement one behind Tom's house, where Kevin damaged his hand.
Last but not least, this is Kumar the Mighty Duck Hunter, the inspiration for Shadow. He's still just a few years old and full of energy. He doesn't normally have demonic glowing eyes. He did have a terror of stairs when we first got him, and yes we had to carry all 75 pounds of him up and down for a while, but he's over that now.
He does still prefer to communicate with people through his stuffed ducks.
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Filed under Drama, gay, Mystery, Pets, Psychological Drama, Romance, World Building, Writing
Tagged as background, Billy's Bones, drama, duck, guided tour, hot tub, jamie fessenden, psychological, setting, Shadow
"Billy's Bones" is touching a lot of readers
I almost titled this post, "Billy's Bones could be my breakout novel," because it very well may be. A breakout novel is a novel that finally draws enough attention to put an author's name on the radar. Generally, subsequent novels sell much better as a result, because now readers have heard of the author.
That may be what Billy's Bones is for me. It spent over a week in the top ten of the Gay Romance list on Amazon, peaking at #7, and remained in the top 20 for almost two weeks. The reader reviews and professional reviews have been amazing! Sales have been astronomical, in comparison to any of my previous novels (and sales picked up for them over the past weeks, too). And I'm still on the Dreamspinner bestsellers list!
What this will mean in the future, I don't know. If I'm lucky, my next novel will be successful as well. Though it will be a little while before I attempt to tackle anything this dark again. My next novel is a romance between two roommates in college.
But really, what's more important than sales (yes, really) is that I've received numerous reviews and emails in which people have told me how much the book touched them. Many have survived abuse themselves and the novel helped them — or at least didn't disturb them — by dealing with the issue sensitively. I couldn't ask for greater praise. My fear as I worked on the novel and all the way up until the day of its release was that it would be traumatic for some readers and come across as insensitive and wildly inaccurate in its depiction of PTSD.
There have been, in fact, some readers who marked the book as something they know they can't read. After reading other reviews, they've concluded that the subject matter is too unpleasant for them to deal with in the context of their own pasts. I understand that and sympathize. I would never want somebody to be further traumatized by something I've written.
There have been a number of comments in reviews about the level of research that went into the novel. Certainly I did read up on the subject of PTSD and watch videos of survivors discussing flashbacks and other experiences, but I was also lucky enough to know a number of therapists, including my mother, who specialized in treating clients with PTSD. She and others read over the therapy scenes in the novel to make sure I wasn't doing anything too horrendous. She did point out that pushing someone to recall repressed memories wasn't always a good idea. In some cases, it's better to leave it alone. But of course, in the novel, it becomes necessary for Kevin to remember what happened, since he is the only witness.
As a final note, I would like to point out that, although I did have some experiences in my childhood which came into play while writing this novel, no one in my family was ever abusive to me or my brother.
Filed under Drama, gay, Life, Mystery, Pets, Psychological Drama, Reviews, Romance, Writing
Tagged as abuse, Billy's Bones, breakout novel. therapy, jamie fessenden, PTSD, repressed memories, reviews
"Billy's Bones" has been released!
My psychological drama, Billy's Bones, has been released today!
It can be found at Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance eBooks, and other resellers.
It also received a 5-star review from Live Your Life, Buy The Book, calling it "Brilliant.. Gripping.. Suspenseful.. Emotional.. Page turner.."
I'm so excited about this release!
Filed under Drama, gay, Occult/Paranormal, Pets, Psychological Drama, Reviews, Romance, Writing
Tagged as Billy's Bones, jamie fessenden, new release, psychological drama, review
June 8, 2013 · 10:58 am
New cover for "Billy's Bones"!
I just received the cover design for my upcoming psychological drama, Billy's Bones!
The cover is by Lou Harper and I love it!
We went through several variations, some of which might have been terrific for a lighter novel. Unfortunately, this is a fairly dark book, with Kevin tormented by repressed memories that break through in his nightmares and cause him to have panic attacks in certain situations—memories of abuse in his childhood.
One thing I insisted upon was the dog. Shadow is based upon my own black Lab, Kumar, who went through a period of adjustment when we got him home from the shelter—getting over an irrational fear of going up and down stairs and peeing on boxes indoors. In the novel, Shadow's adventures parallel what Kevin is going through to be with Tom.
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Tagged as Billy's Bones, coming soon, cover, drama, jamie fessenden, Lou Harper, psychological, repressed memories
April 2, 2012 · 1:34 pm
Farewell To An Old Friend
We had to put our old tom cat, Butterscotch, to sleep this weekend. He was 17 and had been with me since he was a 6-month-old kitten.
Over the years, he'd certainly given me his share of trouble: tearing up the wallpaper in some apartments, peeing on things — and houseguests — when he wanted to show his annoyance at not being fed on time or not having a clean litter box. Once I was away on vacation for a few days on some escorted tours to israel and, even though I'd arranged for him to be fed, of course, the moment I came in the door, he ran right up to me and sprayed all over me. How dare I leave him for that long!
But he was also the friendliest cat I've ever owned, immediately greeting strangers when they entered the house with a cheerful purr. When we got a new kitten, Koji, who was terrified at being in a new place and refused to let anyone come near him for a couple days, Butter spent that entire time sitting peacefully nearby, inching gradually closer over a period of hours, then backing up when Koji's hackles rose, only to start gradually inching forward again. Eventually, Butter won Koji over and they became best friends.
I like to tell the story of when we first adopted Butter, as a kitten. I already had a middle-age dog named Lady, at the time, who was terrified of cats. But Butterscotch took one look at her and decided she was his new Mom! Lady would curl up on her pillow to sleep and within minutes she'd have a tiny orange furball curled up against her stomach. She didn't shove him away, but she would watch him fearfully, waiting for him to explode like a hand grenade or do something else horrible to her. But he didn't. All he ever did was lick her ears and her muzzle until she grew to trust him. Right up until she passed away, the two continued to sleep together, and when she was gone, Butter was the only animal in the household who kept looking for her, clearly missing her.
When we adopted Kumar, a boisterous, black lab pup who outweighed any of the cats by about 65 pounds, Koji terrorized him, while Priscilla, the cranky female stray we'd taken in after Lady passed away, ignored him. But Butter curled right up beside Kumar on his pillow in the kitchen or even in his crate and made him feel welcome.
It was incredibly hard for me, the day the vet called me to tell me that the routine teeth cleaning for Butter had revealed that he had cancer in his jaw. The vet recommended that we not even wake him from the anesthetic, but I couldn't make the decision that quickly and without having a chance to say goodbye. Erich picked him up and brought him home with some pain-killer medication and for a couple months Butter seemed to be doing better than he'd been doing in over a year — more energetic, climbing the stairs that had grown difficult for him, more of an appetite. My guess is that he'd started suffering from arthritis and the pain-killers were making him feel better. I wished I'd known he needed them earlier!
But there was nothing we could do to stop the cancer, without removing a large portion of his jaw and subjecting him to radiation treatments that would have made his last days miserable. Eventually, he started to fade. The tumor grew to the point where it was visibly distorting his face and he could no longer eat without pain, even with the meds. So I made the call to put him to sleep.
I'd never had to do that before, with any of my animals over the years. Buffy had been shot by an asshole neighbor, when I was a kid; Dwan had been hit by a car; Lady had died of pneumonia, despite everything the vet could do. But Butter forced me to make a decision. If I avoided it, his suffering would continue to grow worse. So I know I had to do it. But unfortunately that doesn't get rid of the guilt — not quite. I held him as long as the vet would allow me to, and then Erich and I continued to pet him while he was on the table, along with our friends, Kristen and Claire. I crouched down so that I could look directly into Butter's eyes and try to tell him not to be afraid, but I still felt him shaking in fear for those last moments, and I will never forget it. And I will always know that I had the power to say, "No. Not today." and take him home with me again. And that knowledge brings with it another incredible wave of guilt. But what would that have done for him, really? A few more days, lingering in pain; a few more days of always being hungry, because it hurt to much to eat more than a tiny bit.
Afterwards, Erich and I went home with Butter's collar and held each other while we cried, wondering how do you tell the other pets that he won't be coming home again?
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Tagged as Butterscotch, cat, death, pet


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 * Convenience classes for using Spring's AOP API.
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package org.springframework.aop.support;

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Use the CREATE VIEW statement to define a view, which is a logical table based on one or more tables or views. A view contains no data itself. The tables upon which a view is based are called base tables.
You can also create an object view or a relational view that supports LOBs, object types, REF data types, nested table, or varray types on top of the existing view mechanism. An object view is a view of a user-defined type, where each row contains objects, each object with a unique object identifier.
You can also create XMLType views, which are similar to object views but display data from XMLSchema-based tables of XMLType.
INSTEAD OF triggers defined on a conventional view are dropped when the view is re-created. DML triggers defined on an editioning views are retained when an editioning view is re-created. However, such triggers can be rendered permanently invalid if the editioning view has changed so that it can no longer be compiled—for example if an editioning view column referenced in the trigger definition has been dropped.
You cannot replace a conventional view with an editioning view or an editioning view with a conventional view. See Oracle Database Advanced Application Developer's Guide for more information on editioning views.
If the view definition contains any constraints, CREATE VIEW ... FORCE fails if the base table does not exist or the referenced object type does not exist. CREATE VIEW ... FORCE also fails if the view definition names a constraint that does not exist.
Use this clause to create an editioning view. An editioning view is a single-table view that selects all rows from the base table and displays a subset of the base table columns. You can use an editioning view to isolate an application from DDL changes to the base table during administrative operations such as upgrades. You can obtain information about the relationship of existing editioning view to their base tables by querying the USER_, ALL_, and DBA_EDITIONING_VIEW data dictionary views.
The owner of an editioning view must be editions-enabled. Refer to ENABLE EDITIONS for more information.
Editioning views are intended only to select and provide aliases for a subset of columns in a table. Therefore, the syntax for creating an editioning view is more limited than the syntax for creating a conventional view. Any violation of the restrictions that follow causes the creation of the view to fail, even if you specify FORCE.
You can create DML triggers on editioning views. In this case, the database considers the editioning view to be the base object of the trigger. Such triggers fire when a DML operation target the editioning view itself. They do not fire if the DML operation targets the base table.
You cannot create INSTEAD OF triggers on editioning views.
Within any edition, whether published or not, you can create only one editioning view for any single table.
You cannot specify the object_view_clause or the XMLType_view_clause.
You cannot define a constraint WITH CHECK OPTION on an editioning view.
In the select list of the defining subquery, you can specify only simple references to the columns of the base table, and you can specify each column of the base table only once in the select list. The asterisk wildcard symbol * and t_alias.* are supported to designate all columns of a base table.
The FROM clause of the defining subquery of the view can reference only a single existing database table. Joins are not permitted. The base table must be in the same schema as the view being created. You cannot use a synonym to identify the table, but you can specify a table alias.
Specify the schema to contain the view. If you omit schema, then Oracle Database creates the view in your own schema.
Specify the name of the view or the object view. The name must satisfy the requirements listed in "Database Object Naming Rules".
Restriction on Views If a view has INSTEAD OF triggers, then any views created on it must have INSTEAD OF triggers, even if the views are inherently updatable.
Specify names for the expressions selected by the defining query of the view. The number of aliases must match the number of expressions selected by the view. Aliases must follow the rules for naming Oracle Database schema objects. Aliases must be unique within the view.
If you omit the aliases, then the database derives them from the columns or column aliases in the query. For this reason, you must use aliases if the query contains expressions rather than only column names. Also, you must specify aliases if the view definition includes constraints.
Restriction on View Aliases You cannot specify an alias when creating an object view.
"Syntax for Schema Objects and Parts in SQL Statements"
You can specify constraints on views and object views. You define the constraint at the view level using the out_of_line_constraint clause. You define the constraint as part of column or attribute specification using the inline_constraint clause after the appropriate alias.
Oracle Database does not enforce view constraints. For a full discussion of view constraints, including restrictions, refer to "View Constraints".
"Creating a View with Constraints: Example"
The object_view_clause lets you define a view on an object type.
"Creating an Object View: Example"
Use this clause to explicitly create an object view of type type_name. The columns of an object view correspond to the top-level attributes of type type_name. Each row will contain an object instance and each instance will be associated with an object identifier as specified in the WITH OBJECT IDENTIFIER clause. If you omit schema, then the database creates the object view in your own schema.
Object tables, as well as XMLType tables, object views, and XMLType views, do not have any column names specified for them. Therefore, Oracle Database defines a system-generated pseudocolumn OBJECT_ID. You can use this column name in queries and to create object views with the WITH OBJECT IDENTIFIER clause.
Use the WITH OBJECT IDENTIFIER clause to specify a top-level (root) object view. This clause lets you specify the attributes of the object type that will be used as a key to identify each row in the object view. In most cases these attributes correspond to the primary key columns of the base table. You must ensure that the attribute list is unique and identifies exactly one row in the view. The WITH OBJECT IDENTIFIER and WITH OBJECT ID clauses can be used interchangeably and are provided for semantic clarity.
If you try to dereference or pin a primary key REF that resolves to more than one instance in the object view, then the database returns an error.
You cannot specify this clause if you are creating a subview, because subviews inherit object identifiers from superviews.
The database8i, Release 8.0 syntax WITH OBJECT OID is replaced with this syntax for clarity. The keywords WITH OBJECT OID are supported for backward compatibility, but Oracle recommends that you use the new syntax WITH OBJECT IDENTIFIER.
If the object view is defined on an object table or an object view, then you can omit this clause or specify DEFAULT.
DEFAULT Specify DEFAULT if you want the database to use the intrinsic object identifier of the underlying object table or object view to uniquely identify each row.
attribute For attribute, specify an attribute of the object type from which the database should create the object identifier for the object view.
Use the UNDER clause to specify a subview based on an object superview.
You must create a subview in the same schema as the superview.
The object type type_name must be the immediate subtype of superview.
You can create only one subview of a particular type under the same superview.
Specify a subquery that identifies columns and rows of the table(s) that the view is based on. The select list of the subquery can contain up to 1000 expressions.
If you create views that refer to remote tables and views, then the database links you specify must have been created using the CONNECT TO clause of the CREATE DATABASE LINK statement, and you must qualify them with a schema name in the view subquery.
If you create a view with the flashback_query_clause in the defining query, then the database does not interpret the AS OF expression at create time but rather each time a user subsequently queries the view.
The subquery cannot select the CURRVAL or NEXTVAL pseudocolumns.
If the subquery selects the ROWID, ROWNUM, or LEVEL pseudocolumns, then those columns must have aliases in the view subquery.
If the subquery uses an asterisk (*) to select all columns of a table, and you later add new columns to the table, then the view will not contain those columns until you re-create the view by issuing a CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW statement.
For object views, the number of elements in the subquery select list must be the same as the number of top-level attributes for the object type. The data type of each of the selecting elements must be the same as the corresponding top-level attribute.
You cannot specify the SAMPLE clause.
The preceding restrictions apply to materialized views as well.
An updatable view is one you can use to insert, update, or delete base table rows. You can create a view to be inherently updatable, or you can create an INSTEAD OF trigger on any view to make it updatable.
For an UPDATE statement, the view must not be created WITH CHECK OPTION, and all columns updated must be extracted from a key-preserved table.
Use this clause to create an XMLType view, which displays data from an XMLSchema-based table of type XMLType. The XMLSchema_spec indicates the XMLSchema to be used to map the XML data to its object-relational equivalents. The XMLSchema must already have been created before you can create an XMLType view.
The WITH OBJECT IDENTIFIER and WITH OBJECT ID clauses can be used interchangeably and are provided for semantic clarity.
"Creating an XMLType View: Example" and "Creating a View on an XMLType Table: Example"
CONSTRAINT constraint Specify the name of the READ ONLY or CHECK OPTION constraint. If you omit this identifier, then Oracle automatically assigns the constraint a name of the form SYS_Cn, where n is an integer that makes the constraint name unique within the database.
INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE operations are performed using INSTEAD OF triggers.
Restriction on the subquery_restriction_clause You cannot specify this clause if you have specify an ORDER BY clause.
"Creating a Read-Only View: Example"
The view declaration need not define a name for the column based on the expression salary*12, because the subquery uses a column alias (annual_salary) for this expression.
You can use this view to isolate an application from DDL changes to the orders table during an administrative operation such as an upgrade. You can create a DML trigger on this view, so that the trigger fires when a DML operation targets the view itself, but does not fire if the DML operation targets the orders table.
The next example creates the same view WITH CHECK OPTION. You cannot subsequently insert a new row into clerk if the new employee is not a clerk. You can update an employee's job_id from one type of clerk to another type of clerk, but the update in the preceding statement would fail, because the view cannot access employees with non-clerk job_id.
In the preceding example, the primary key index on the location_id column of the locations table is not unique in the locations_view view. Therefore, locations is not a key-preserved table and columns from that base table are not updatable.
You can insert, update, or delete a row from the departments base table, because all the columns in the view mapping to the departments table are marked as updatable and because the primary key of departments is retained in the view.
For you to insert into the table using the view, the view must contain all NOT NULL columns of all tables in the join, unless you have specified DEFAULT values for the NOT NULL columns.


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New York Film Festival 59 Mississippi Masala directed by Mira Nair 1991 UK/USA 118 minutes Denzel Washington stars opposite Sarita Choudhury in Mira Nair's second fiction feature, which endures as a seminal screen romance
New York Film Festival 59
Mississippi Masala directed by Mira Nair
1991 UK/USA 118 minutes
Denzel Washington stars opposite Sarita Choudhury in Mira Nair's second fiction feature, which endures as a seminal screen romance of the 1990s. Choudhury is Mina, a Ugandan Indian from Kampala whose family leaves Uganda after the implementation of Idi Amin's policy of forcefully expelling all Asians from the country. They wind up in Greenwood, Mississippi, living with relatives and trying to reconcile the trauma of their involuntary exile with assimilating to American culture. Some 17 years pass before Mina falls for a self-employed carpet cleaner, Demetrius (Washington), and their romance puts them in conflict with the local Black and Indian-American communities—not to mention Mina's family. At once a powerful parable and a deeply personal work, Mississippi Masala remains an incisive examination of race relations and the tension between passion and tradition. A Janus Films release. New 4K digital restoration undertaken by The Criterion Collection and supervised by director Mira Nair and cinematographer Ed Lachman.
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Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resulted in new roles, decisions, and vulnerabilities while practitioners are also faced with new levels of complexity, adaptation, and constraints. It is becoming increasingly apparent that conventional approaches to safety and human factors are not equipped to cope with these challenges and that a new era in safety is necessary.
In addition to new material covering changes in the field during the past decade, the book takes a new approach to discussing safety. The previous edition looked critically at the answers human factors would typically provide and compared/contrasted them with current research and insights at that time. This edition explains how to turn safety from a bureaucratic accountability back into an ethical responsibility for those who do our dangerous work, and how to embrace the human factor not as a problem to control, but as a solution to harness.


Whenever we think about star kids, we think about the privileges and luxuries they get in life. "Oh, they have everything sorted for them, they have it so easy," is something we often hear people say.
But, in all honesty, being born to a famous parent does not mean that the star kids are some mythical characters, who live in a parallel dimension or universe. They pretty much live a normal life, eat regular food and take the public transport, just like everyone else. Sounds impossible? Well, then maybe it's just Karan Deol, Sunny Deol's son who is living a regular life.
#sunnydeol son #karandeol snapped at andheri- ghatkoapar metro ride.
Karan Deol, who is making his Bollywood debut with 'Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas', was recently spotted travelling in the metro in Mumbai to reach the film's set. He was travelling on the Andheri-Ghatkopar route.
His photos have since gone viral and people on social media have lost their calm.
From calling him the most handsome Deol in the family to praising him for his humility and for being grounded, people can't stop talking about the latest Deol on the block.
Karan's debut movie is being directed by none other than his father, Sunny Deol and the father-son duo has been reportedly shooting in and around Mumbai for quite some time. In 2017, Sunny announced the beginning of the film's shoot.